High-Rise — Full-Length Trailer

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added: Tue, Feb 9th '16

In a new full-length trailer, released today, for "High-Rise," Tom Hiddleston is a 1970s neurologist who finds himself trapped in a psychedelic nightmare when his swanky apartment building in London turns into a chaotic madhouse. When frequent power shortages cause the residents to act out of frustration, anger, and jealousy, the building's social structure starts to disintegrate into a pile of mind-bending confusion. It's like a kaleidoscopic mishmash of "Snowpiercer" and "The Grand Budapest Hotel" ... and maybe a little touch of "The Towering Inferno."

Directed by maverick filmmaker Ben Wheatley (A Field in England, Sightseers) from an adapted screenplay penned by his writing collaborator Amy Jump, this stylistic British thriller is based on the cult 1975 novel by J.G. Ballard, the late, acclaimed English author of "Empire of the Sun" and "Crash" (both of which were also turned into films).

"High-Rise" also stars Jeremy Irons, Sienna Miller, Luke Evans, Elisabeth Moss, and James Purefoy. It will open in the U.K. on March 18th with the U.S. release set for April 28th.

synopsis:
London, 1975. Robert Laing (Tom Hiddleston) is a young doctor seduced by the lifestyle in a high-rise, an isolated community, cut off from the rest of society in their luxury tower block, and its creator, the architect Anthony Royal (Jeremy Irons). Taking up residence on the twenty-fifth floor, Laing discovers a world of complex loyalties, and also strikes up a relationship with Royal's devoted aide Charlotte (Sienna Miller). After Laing befriends Richard Wilder (Luke Evans), a documentary filmmaker relegated to the second floor who is determined to provoke the class injustices inherent in the high-rise, a dangerous social situation develops and the high-rise eventually fragments into violent tribes.

 

directed by   Ben Wheatley

starring   Tom Hiddleston, Jeremy Irons, Sienna Miller, Luke Evans, Elisabeth Moss, James Purefoy, Sienna Guillory, Keeley Hawes, Stacy Martin

release date   March 18, 2016 (UK release), April 28, 2016 (US release)

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